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■ WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing U.S. de-
^Rendence on foreign oil, the Iran-Iraq war and
Hae lack of a clear-cut national energy policy pose
serious economic and geopolitical threats to this
nation, two energy experts said Thursday.
I “We are today sowing the seeds of the next en-
■rgy crisis,” the Senate Energy Committee was
Hold by James R. Schlesinger, who headed the de-
^Bartments of Defense and Energy and the CIA at
^various times in the 1970s.
I Schlesinger and James E. Akins, U.S. ambassa
dor to Saudi Arabia from 1973 to 1976, were crit-
al of the Reagan administration’s abandoning
ol its proclaimed neutrality in the Persian Gulf
ar by secretly selling weapons to Iran.
“An Iranian victory would be catastrophic for
the United States,” said Akins, who called on
Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz to
forcefully restate U.S. neutrality in the 6-year-old
conflict and work to prevent U.S. allies from sup
plying Iran with weapons.
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ould win the war.
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Iraq, Iran’s influence among Arab states would
be strong enough to allow it to supplant Saudi
Arabia as the dominant Persian Gulf member of
the international oil cartel.
This, they said, would leave Iran with the abil
ity to force cutbacks in global oil production and
a further rise in crude prices at a time when im
ports supply 39.4 percent of U.S. oil needs — the
same level that existed just before the Arab oil
embargo of 1973.
Schlesinger said this figure could rise to 50
percent by 1990, further increasing the U.S. for
eign trade deficit and leaving this country even
more vulnerable to cutoffs of imported petro
leum.
“Quite simply, American oil dependency
means lessened leeway in foreign policy,” said
Schlesinger, pointing to last year’s U.S. bombing
of Libya to protest that nation’s support of inter
national terrorism.
“How easy would it be for some future presi
dent to strike at an Arab oil producer under con
ditions in which the international oil market is
tight and the United States were dependent on
imported oil for more than 50 percent of its sup
ply?” Schlesinger asked.
Akins said his discussions with oil ministers of
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun
tries have convinced him there is “real determin
ation” in OPEC to reduce production and force a
rise in oil prices.
The agreement to cut production came in De
cember after about 14 months of OPEC disarray
and tumbling prices that made gasoline cheap
for American motorists but sent domestic oil pro
ducers into a tailspin.
Hitting the administration’s free-market ap
proach to energy regulation, Schlesinger said
“the administration has been content to allow
laissez-faire to prevail. . . . The consequence will
be a rise in America’s energy vulnerability far
more rapid than required by our resource base.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) —
[Pennsylvania’s treasurer, facing
jail for defrauding the state, pro-
Iclaimed his innocence at a news
conference Thursday but said
“It’s too late for me,” then pulled
a pistol from a manila envelope,
put it into his mouth and killed
1 himself.
R. Rudd Dwyer died instantly
[after he fired a single shot from a
.357 Magnum pistol in front of
I two dozen horrified reporters,
photographers and aides in his
office suite in the state Finance
| Building, Dauphin County Coro-
I ner William Bush said.
Dwyer’s son Rob, 21, said his
| father had given the family no in
dication of what he intended to
do.
He said he heard the news at
home with his mother, Joanne,
47, and sister, Dyan, 18.
On Wednesday, the attorney
general’s office had declared that
Dwyer, 47, would be out of office
as soon as he was sentenced today
in federal court in Williamsport.
Siamese twins die during surgery
that offered chance at life for 1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Twin
SW-week-old boys died Thursday af
ter surgeons operated for eight
hejurs to separate the infants, who
shared a heart, liver and intestines, a
hospital spokeswoman said.
The second twin died at 6:30
p.m., 6‘/2 hours after the first infant
died during the operation doctors
had said would give only one of the
twins a chance to live.
The second baby’s death was
caused by “multiple problems relat
ing to surgery, primarily cardiac
problems,” Childrens Hospital
spokeswoman Patricia Unser said.
Dr. James O’Neill, chief of sur
gery at the hospital, had said after
the operation that everything “went
as well as could be expected, and it is
very questionable” whether the sec
ond infant would survive.
Surgery to separate the twins,
joined from breastbone to abdomen
and together weighing IVi pounds,
began at 8.20 a.m., two hours after
they were wheeled into the operat
ing room. It was completed at 4 p.m.
Unser said “Baby A”, separated
from his brother at 2.30 p.m., was
clinically dead at noon, less than
four hours after the operation be
gan. He was kept attached to his
brother while surgeons moved the
heart and liver into the proper
places in “Baby B’s” body.
Earlier, the hospital reported
“Baby A” had not died until sepa
rated.
“To separate the children one had
to be sacrificed, but without the sur
gery neither infant could have sur
vived much longer,” Unser said.
Shirley Bonne m, another
spokeswoman, said,“It was a very
sad and difficult decision, and the
only way we were able to justify it
was knowing in our own minds that
at least you have a chance to save
one.”
The boys were born Dec. 27 to a
New York City woman who re
quested anonymity for her family.
The twins were identified only as
“Baby A” and “Baby B.”
Midway through the surgery the
12-member team moved the con
joined heart outside the bodies and
trimmed the excess heart tissue away
to make the necessary connections
that eventually diverted the blood
supply system to the survivor.
When this was completed the
heart was put into Baby B’s chest.
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The defect in Baby A’s cardiovas
cular system kept blood from flow
ing back to his heart, doctors said.
The twins came to Children’s
Hospital two weeks ago. Since 1957,
the hospital has performed six oper
ations to separate conjoined twins,
which occur once in every 500,000
births. Of these, four succeeded.
Dr. Everett Koop, now U.S. Sur
geon General, performed a similar
operation at the hospital on twin
girls in 1977. However, the surviving
infant died three months later from
an infection.
Before beginning the operation,
the hospital said it had been assured
by the district attorney’s office that
there would be no murder or other-
charges brought because of the
death of one infant.
Dr. Howard Grant, a physician
adviser to the hospital administra
tion and a key participant in the hos
pital’s review of the case, said, “The
question you need to raise is: Is it le
gally acceptable to cause the death of
one of the babies in order to justify
saving one of the babies, when both
of them can’t survive without a pro
cedure at this point? We have an ob
ligation to try to preserve life.”
NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I.
(AP) — Five-thirty. The day is dy
ing, dusk falling softly over the
Blacks tone Valley’s cozy homes
and wooded hills.
The National Guard moves in.
The dozen soldiers stuff their
flak jackets with candy bars, pull
on their helmets and troop from
the smoky warmth of the bar
racks to waiting jeeps that trundle
up the rural highway.
A military helicopter buzzes
overhead. Local police and state
troopers prowl the streets, ran
domly stopping people, asking
them where they’re going and
what they’re doing.
On the lonely backroads, the
soldiers take up their posts. Hid
den by the darkness, they watch
and wait.
Somewhere in the night, a
sniper does the same.
Using a 22.-caliber semi-auto
matic weapon, the gunman
usually takes aim through lighted
picture windows as his victims re
lax in their living rooms. Eleven
attacks in a month have left four
people wounded, two of them se
riously.
Investigators have no descrip
tion of the sniper and say there is
no pattern to the attacks — seven
in this northern Rhode Island
town of 11,000, two in neighbor
ing Cumberland and two just
across the border in Bellingham,
Mass.
Nerves are taut. In house after
house off the valley’s winding
roads, curtains are drawn at sun
set. Porch lights are doused. Tele
vision sets are moved to back
rooms. A car backfires and the
special sniper hotline police have
set up rings with another false re
port of gunfire.
A state trooper reports driving
by one house and seeing a family
silhouetted behind the sheer cur
tains. Concern turned to amuse
ment when he realized they were
cardboard figures in front of the
TV. Sniper bait.
“Every time a dog barks, your
ears perk up,” said Sharron
Farbsten, a 46-year-old dental re
ceptionist who lives on an isolated
road in North Smithfield.
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“My 9-year-old spent the first
week since this all started crawl
ing across the living room oh his
stomach,” she said.
Business at a local gun shop is
in a slump.
“All the people who ordinarily
go target shooting aren’t coming
out anymore because they don’t
want to get hassled by police and
be mistaken for the sniper,” said
the shop owner, who, like many
valley residents, did not want his
name used for fear the sniper
would see it. *
The latest attack came Jan* 8 —
exactly one month after the first
— when a bullet shattered the
kitchen window of a state home
for the mentally retarded and
lodged in the back of Alan Gor-
den, the house supervisor.
The lull since Gorden was shot
offers little reassurance to jittery
homeowners, though. Two weeks
went by without incident at
Christmastime, then the sniper
returned, hitting four homes in
seven days.
Alarmed by the frequency of
the attacks, Gov. Edward DiPrete
last week offered a $10,000 re
ward and called out the National
Guard, sending 30 soldiers to
help beleaguered police.
“We drive around awhile and
just observe,” said Lt. John
LoUghlin, spokesman for the
Guard’s 43rd Brigade. “We’re not
out here to apprehend anyone or
get in any shootouts.”
Deborah Aguire feels reas
sured whenever she hears the Na
tional Guard chopper overhead
or sees one of the jeeps patrolling
her street.
The 30-year-old grocery clerk
had put her two little boys to bed
and was in the living room watch
ing a wrestling match on TV with
her mother-in-law when she
heard a loud pop just after mid
night on Dec. 13.
A spent bullet bounced off her
mother-in-law’s arm, leaving a
red welt, and the two women no
ticed that the front window was
shattered.
Aguire's 6-year-old son panics
if the sun goes down and all the
shades aren’t drawn.
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